SPEAK OUT

Bridge honors Emerson

I WOULD like to respond to the people who are calling Speak Out wanting to change the name of the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge to the Carnahan Bridge. If it weren't for Bill Emerson, we wouldn't even have a bridge started in Cape Girardeau. Emerson worked hard to get this bridge, so he deserves this honor.

Too much back patting

I ALMOST fell over in my chair after reading the quote in the article in the Southeast Missourian about Roger Wilson patting himself on the back as to what he and the good citizens in Missouri have done over the last month or so. "It was an amazing thing to watch our Constitution take care of us they way it did. We were sad and we were shocked, but we were never off-balance." I cannot believe this. Let me see. The citizens Missouri elect a dead man who cannot take office. We allow the polls in St. Louis to stay open after the 7 p.m. deadline. And this man wants to pat himself on the back. Thank God this man is going to only be in office for three months.

Big legal mess

IT TICKLED the heck out of me to think that David Limbaugh followed the advice of Archie Bunker who said when you have a real tough legal problem the thing to do is to get a real sharp lawyer. Well, David, you have a real tough legal problem. The illegal action by political operatives in Seminole County, Fla., could send your cowboy back to the ranch. If W. really believed he was the president-elect, he would resign his governorship. My big question: What will you do next spring when the Miami Herald under the Freedom of Information Act finds out Al Gore really won the vote in Florida by a larger margin than is already known?

We need to be educated

KUDOS TO David Limbaugh for his enlightening law education on our Constitution. We all need to get all the education we can to realize we have a democracy in America with an attempt to overthrow it by the executive branch of Clinton and Gore. If it were not for the Southeast Missourian and excellent writers and lawyers like David Limbaugh, the public at large would not be aware that we are facing a dire crisis right now: Gore's attempt to use the executive branch to overthrow our government and abolish our legislative and judicial branches.

Dangerous parking

I THINK it is time for the Jackson Board of Aldermen to make people quit parking on North Hope and North Georgia. If a fire truck had to go through there in a hurry, it would have to wreck into some cars. They park two feet from the curb, and people cannot meet. They all have drives to park their cars in. If they don't want to park in their drives, then the city ought to put parking meters there to let them pay for parking. The streets are made for driving, not for parking. The people ought to realize what danger they are putting others in who drive these streets.

What a relief

DEAR LAW-ABIDING citizens: Isn't this the greatest relief we all have had in a lifetime to get our beloved White House cleaned out of this trashy anything-goes administration and restore dignity and honor to the presidency that our highest office of our land deserves and has always had up until this Clinton-Gore administration? We should all thank God for his blessing on America and for saving our democracy and constitutional form of government.

Trash after parade

I WOULD like to know who is responsible for all the trash and litter that was left behind after the Christmas parade.